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TN-

Software wise, I'm clueless as far as tweaks, hardware wise is another
story. I swapped motherboards on my 1.4, basically because I wanted the RAID
controller and the DDR, the RAID actually slows the boot slightly(has to
seek drives, it's in addition to IDE's) but the DDR makes everything fly,
and from what I hear RAMBUS is better. Overall my 1.4, 256DDR, 160gig boots
XP so I can work in 8-10 seconds. If you have the opportunity I say get the
fastest RAM you can find, even in a pinch, I don't know for sure but
changing your paging file(virtual mem.) might help, perhaps someone else has
advice on that? If not, be glad, 28 seconds is a lot better than the 2-3
minutes 98 would take for me before....

~Mylifeisahighway

"TN" <thanh.nguyen@ericssonbpc.com.au> wrote in message
news:3c219b60$1_1@news.iprimus.com.au...
> I have a 1Ghz Athlon, 40Gb 7200rpm Seagate IDE HDD.
> My installation consists of WinXP Pro, Office XP, Visio, Tribes 2, RTCW,
> and a few other things. There are no performance tweaks, fixes or
utilities
> installed.
>
> From the moment WinXP starts to boot, it takes 28 seconds for WinXP to
boot,
> type in my password, and have the desktop appear and the hour glass go
away
> ready for me to work.
>
> If memory serves me correctly, I have read other people have booted XP
> in under 15 or 10 seconds. If you are one of these people, could you
> explain how you achieved it? Did you have SCSI and/or hardware RAID?
> Thanks.
>
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